rdiff-patcher

A module for patching files using delta patch files generated with rdiff

Installation

$ npm install --save rdiff-patcher

Usage

rdiff-patcher will only apply patches generated by the rdiff delta module to a base file, it will not generate the delta file

const patcher = require('rdiff-patcher');
 
async function main() {
    const basePath = './files/newyork.pdf';
    const changedPath = './files/newyork-barcode.pdf';
    const patchPath = './files/newyork.bin';
    const outPath = './files/newyork-new.pdf';
 
    await patcher(basePath, patchPath, outPath);
}
 
main();

API

There's only one API method in rdiff-patcher

patcher(basePath, patchPath, outPath)

Arguments

• basePath - the original file that was diffed using rdiff
• patchPath - the patch (delta) file created with the rdiff delta command
• outPath - the output path for the patched file

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2017 OneFlow Systems

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